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JULY 05, 2014

Commentary boxes need succession plans too

Channel Nine should work to maintain the standards that its best broadcasters - Benaud and Chappell - have set, rather than encourage a frat-house environment

Commentators need to strike a balance between talking to the uninitiated and to the diehards, who think they have seen and heard it all © Getty Images

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JUNE 20, 2014

A Derbyshire fan in Melbourne

How books, magazines and live scorecard updates allowed an Australian teenager to keep track of county cricket in the 1990s

JUNE 07, 2014

The other rebels

Not many remember the International Wanderers teams who visited apartheid South Africa to play cricket

MAY 22, 2014

The slap we knew would come

The news of widespread fixing in T20 cricket feels like a slap in the face even for those of us who had secretly thought that such days were in the offing

MAY 09, 2014

Australia's wicketkeeper dilemma

Who's to fill Haddin's shoes when the time comes? There's no easy answer

APRIL 25, 2014

The high-wire act of modern coaching

While the media and fans are quick to blame the coach when everything is going wrong, there is little or no credit attributed to him when success does come

APRIL 11, 2014

Mimicking our heroes

Batting stance, bowling run-up, shuffling, adjusting equipment - there's something about cricketers' idiosyncrasies that makes us want to copy them

MARCH 28, 2014

Missing Pakistan

How has the team fallen off the sporting map so dramatically in a cricket-literate country like Australia?

MARCH 14, 2014

Thinking pink

The jury's still out on the pros and cons of lighter-coloured balls and how they may or may not work in day-night Test cricket

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Warne v Cullinan revisited

Mind games were as much a part of Warne's armoury as the flipper in the mid-1990s, and his battle with one South African batsman captured the imagination

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The comfort Haddin brings

A year ago if he had announced his retirement, it would have raised few eyebrows; had he done so after the latest Ashes, it would have been wrenching

JANUARY 30, 2014

In praise of Margaret Hughes

The first woman to write to a high standard on the game was treated a bit like a circus freak when she appeared on the scene

JANUARY 16, 2014

How does one measure T20 proficiency?

The traditional data range of cricket statistics is far too narrow and its focus sometimes irrelevant to the requirements of the shortest format

JANUARY 03, 2014

What I read in 2013

There's a surge for immediacy in the modern media but sports books, especially cricket ones, help you slow down

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Project Snow and what might have been

Cricket nearly reached an impasse in the mid-1990s and there was a possibility the game would split into two factions

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The little cricket magazine that endured

The ABC Cricket Book was a faithful companion to generations of Australian kids growing up with the game

NOVEMBER 08, 2013

Reeling from the Sharmageddon

Just when you thought you were bored of all the ODIs, Australia and India served up an utterly bonkers match in Bangalore

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Shane Watson and the art of self-analysis

The insularity of his approach might not necessarily mark him out as the most likeable cricketer but it makes him an endlessly interesting one

OCTOBER 11, 2013

What's happening to Australia's cricket grounds?

Local venues taught kids to love cricket, but they're vanishing fast, victims of development and commerce

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

What do they know of cliches...

Cricket clichés find their most obvious and oft-parodied home in commentary boxes but we're all guilty of them from time to time

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